Everything seems hard before mastering and everything seems easy after learning!
So, the question is whether or not you’re ready for this exciting challenge.
Alphabets
Arabic has 28 consonants (English 24) and 8 vowels/diphthongs (English 22). Short vowels are unimportant in Arabic, and indeed do not appear in writing. Texts are read from right to left and written in a cursive script. No distinction is made between upper and lower case, and the rules for punctuation are much looser than in English.
Grammar- Verb/Tense:
Arabic has no verb to be in the present tense, and no auxiliary do. Furthermore, there is only present tense in Arabic, as compared to English, which has simple and continuous forms. These differences result in errors!
Writing and pronunciation
Arabic has an alphabet that’s different from what’s used to write English.
The Arabic alphabet is both beautiful and challenging to master. Here are some of the things that make reading and writing Arabic difficult for someone who grew up speaking and reading English:
The language is written from right to left. This is difficult both conceptually and technologically — most computer systems were developed for left-to-right languages like English.
Letters change shape based on whether they’re at the beginning, the middle, or the end of a word.
Why learning a “hard” language is worth it!
For the reasons listed above, among others, not just grammar but Arabic as a whole language is quite challenging to learn. If you’re an English speaker, you’ll need to spend more hours studying Arabic than you would study Spanish to get up to a similar level.
But a harder language is not an unlearnable language. First, Arabic vocabulary might not be as difficult for an English speaker as you’d think English and Arabic actually share some vocabulary.
